As I mentioned in the feedback, we have addressed this suggestion in Visual Studio 2015, which supports touch gestures in the Visual Studio Editor only – you can scroll, select by double-tapping a word, select a line by single tap to the left of the line, pinch-zoom.

Try the Visual Studio 2015 (it’s available for download at https://www.visualstudio.com/) if you haven’t already done so, and send feedback via the in-product feedback feature. If there are other parts of Visual Studio that would be particularly valuable to you if they were touch enabled, please do let us know through that channel too.

Elements in VS is too small to touch it by finger. I think it should be like different mode = "touch mode" (like difference between IE and IE touch), DEBUG button, target dropdown moved to bottom, file tabs moved to bottom (with auto hiding) and everything is much bigger.
And it would be nice to be able use pen for noting, for example. Imagine you draw inside your code - missing this feature, I paint in one note, but it's not linked to code somehow.

In case you use device like Surface it all can improve productivity much, because touch screen is much closer to your right hand when you are typing, try to go to a couple of web-sites and fill the forms with IE in touch mode, sometimes putting the finger on the screen does not suppose you hand to leave keyboard

Hi Anonymous, VS 2015 is touch friendly as Mark mentioned below. What else are you expecting to be touch friendly? The only thing I've needed to be touch friendly is the code editor anything outside of that I use the mouse for.

So I'm curious if those that don't see the utility in this don't have touchscreen laptops. I can understand that as a developer you'll be using a keyboard and a mouse, but at many-a-time you will be reading code as well. To dig deep into an issue or get familiar with a new code base. In these cases it would be useful. Also, on track pads you're able to use two fingers to scroll the screen, similar to how you would scroll via a wheel. In reality we're asking here to add that same functionality to a swipe on the screen. If you don't use it, that's ok, not sure why people keep saying they don't know how to FEEL about it.

Why on Earth would anyone want to use a touch screen to develop applications in Visual Studio? I'm genuinely curious. At the same time, I think you people must be nuts. I hire developers, not iPhone swipers.

I have a MacBook Pro as a work computer and I still can't use the touchpad like I can in other programs in Visual Studio. It's sensitivity is too high (move the mouse a little bit and it doesn't scroll)... It seems like it has a minimum scroll amount which sets like notches and if you don't two-finger scroll quickly enough, it won't move. Also, scrolling in "Solution Explorer" panel is way too sensitive.

Make it happen bros. Need some fancy touch fun with my Surface Pro 3 (or even on a MacBook Pro? There's an idea right there, make it so multi-touch trackpads can maneuver smoothly (such as a touchpad on a MacBook).

Would love this. My main dev computer uses is a 27 inch touch screen and I also have a surface pro 2. Both would benefit to this massively. It you could move the SSMS guys a long with this as well, I would be eternally greatful :-)

Scrolling would definitely be nice when using VS on my surface pro. I can get around by using the keyboard PgUp/PgDn etc, but it would be much more intuitive to just swipe my finger up and down the screen.

Yes, this doesn't have to be so sophisticated. It would really just be nice to swipe up and down and scroll my text window. On the Surface, it's hard to use the little touch keyboard touchpad to precisely hit the scroll bar at the right.